The Gauteng provincial government believes it can train teachers at 2 200 schools in how to use tablet computers in education before the 2014 academic year commences in mid-January. That’s when the schools will be provided with 88 000 tablet computers for use by pupils
The City of Tshwane will soon offer free Wi-Fi connectivity in selected areas around Pretoria. The first phase of the project, which will provide free connectivity to five locations by the end of November, will cover the Tshwane University of Technology’s Soshanguve campus, the University of Pretoria’s Hatfield campus, Tshwane North College
Sony has made a remarkable comeback in smartphones in the past year. The super-thin 5-inch Xperia Z, regarded as one of this year’s top Android smartphones, has been lauded by critics. Now, say executives at Sony’s regional office, the company is hoping to expand on the Xperia Z’s sales success
Rarely are the kings of one era the kings of the next. Just as Nokia and BlackBerry were the kings of the pre-smartphone era, so they were eclipsed by Apple and its fast-follower, Samsung. The same is true of Palm, which reigned in the preceding age of the personal digital assistant
The share price of Africa’s largest telecommunications group breached R200 for the first time on Wednesday after it published its interim results for the six months to 30 June 2013. The share touched R200,90/share in intraday trade, but fell back to R199 at the close, a gain
Asymmetry in wholesale mobile call termination rates distorts the market, undermines competition and harms consumers. That’s the view of MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia, who has strongly rejected arguments put forward by Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who says
In the wake of another set of poor quarterly results tied to weak consumer demand for its new smartphones, BlackBerry on Monday announced that it was exploring “strategic options”, including the possibility of selling the business. But who would want to buy
The provincial government in Gauteng has outlined details of a R396m “e-learning solution” designed to replace the controversy-ridden R2,2bn Gauteng Online. It will involve the roll-out of 88 000 Android-powered tablet computers made by China’s
MTN South Africa lost subscribers in the first half of the year and has admitted that it was “slow to respond to aggressive price competition” in both voice and data and that this was partially responsible for the company’s underperformance. In the six months
MTN’s fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) mobile broadband offering has come out on top in a series of tests run by TechCentral in Johannesburg on Monday. It’s the second time that MTN has emerged with the fastest 4G network in TechCentral’s testing
